# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-mchugh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:55:11.832Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-mchugh"
name: "Joe McHugh"
slug: "joe-mchugh"
description: "Joe McHugh is an Irish former Fine Gael politician from Carrigart, County Donegal. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal North-East constituency from 2007 to 2016 and the Donegal constituency from 2016 to 2024. He served as a Minister of State from 2014 to 2018 and as Minister for Education and Skills from 2018 to 2020. He chaired the Committee on European Union Affairs from 2020 to 2024."
tagline: "Irish Fine Gael politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Senator_Joe_McHugh_Fine_Gael.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1971-07-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.03
  momentum:             12.5
  historical:           4.813248
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/McHughJoeTD"
    handle:    "McHughJoeTD"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.donegalmatters.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_McHugh"
    title: "Joe McHugh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_McHugh"
    title: "Joe McHugh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_McHugh"
    title: "Joe McHugh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_McHugh"
    title: "Joe McHugh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_McHugh"
    title: "Joe McHugh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6211254"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump